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Coventry: what’s happening where you live

What the council itself has published on the five things it most shapes for a household: homes, getting about, the bill, the local environment and schools. Each line is quoted from the council’s own document, with the link. This page says what was decided or proposed; it never says whether it was right.

This page is built from official registers only; the council’s own publications have not been read yet, and every line below says so where that leaves a gap.

Coventry City Council: Metropolitan district (unitary), England, West Midlands; part of the WMCA combined authority. GOV.UK lists it as a unitary council. ONS code E08000026.

Council website · Publication scheme · Disclosure log

Do it online

The council’s own service pages as listed by GOV.UK’s Local Links Manager (Open Government Licence), refreshed weekly; the same list of everyday services, in the same order, for every council, in GOV.UK’s wording.

Housing

We haven't read this council's own publications yet. The council’s website

Transport

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Council tax

Band D set by Coventry for 2026–27: £2,186.40 of a £2,516.72 total bill in the area. MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Open Government Licence).

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Environment

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Education

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Changes to schools in this area recorded by the Department for Education Updated automatically

No school here is currently recorded as proposed to open or close.

In the last twelve months: 2 opened (2 new provision), 1 closed (1 for academy)
  • Woodfield — closed; reason recorded: for academy, 31 October 2026
  • Waterside School — open; reason recorded: new provision, 22 October 2026
  • Woodfield — open; reason recorded: new provision, 1 November 2026

Get Information about Schools, DfE’s register of every school in England, refreshed daily (Open Government Licence). The register’s own reason is shown: most closures and openings are a school becoming an academy, which changes who runs it, not whether it is there.

What the council plans to spend, 2026–27

Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s table has no figures for Coventry for 2026–27: “RA return not received in time for publication.” The table

Life in Coventry: the official facts

Facts about the people who live here: their pay, homes, health and more, from official statistics. They describe the place, not you, and every council gets the same list. Each shows when it was measured.

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Showing: Coventry.

People living here
364,766 people 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsAn official estimate of everyone who lives in the area, in the middle of the year.
Typical age
35 years 30 June 2025 · Office for National StatisticsHalf the people who live here are younger than this and half are older.
Money to live on, per person, per year
£19,773 2024 · Office for National StatisticsAverage household income per person after taxes, with benefits added: what people have to spend or save.
Typical weekly pay, before tax
£648 30 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsFor employees who live here: half earn more than this each week, half earn less.
Children growing up in poverty
32.2% April 2024 to March 2025 · Department for Work and PensionsThe share of children under 16 in families on low incomes once housing costs are paid.
People claiming unemployment-related benefits
5.5% 2025 · Office for National StatisticsThe share of people aged 16 to 64 claiming Jobseeker's Allowance or Universal Credit while looking for work.
Average price of a home
£227,721 August 2026 · HM Land RegistryThe average price of a home here in the month shown.
How many years of pay a home costs
6.0 times yearly pay 1 April 2025 · Office for National StatisticsA typical home's price divided by the typical yearly pay of people who live here.
Years in good health: women
58.9 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a girl born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Years in good health: men
59.2 years 2022 to 2024 · Office for National StatisticsHow many years a boy born here can expect to live in good health, at current rates.
Greenhouse gases, per person
3.3 tonnes per person 2024 · Department for Energy Security and Net ZeroEmissions from the area in a year, shared out per resident, in tonnes of carbon dioxide or its equivalent.
Homes and businesses that can get the fastest broadband
97.7% 1 January 2026 · OfcomThe share of addresses that can get gigabit broadband (1,000 Mbps).
Public chargers for electric cars
716.5 per 100,000 people 1 July 2026 · Department for Transport, sourced from ZapmapPublic charging points at all speeds, for every 100,000 people.
Businesses trading here
11,290 businesses 2024 · Office for National StatisticsBusinesses with sales or staff in the year.

More figures for Coventry from the ONS

Gathered by the Office for National Statistics in Explore Local Statistics (Open Government Licence), refreshed daily. Some figures aren’t published for every nation, so the list can be shorter outside England.

Who runs the council

This council’s area is covered by West Midlands combined authority, with its elected mayor.

54 seats in 2026. Run by: Labour, as a minority administration. Open Council Data (public domain).

Councillors by party: Labour Party 24, Reform UK 20, Conservative and Unionist 6, Green Party (E&W) 4.

Next scheduled council election: 6 May 2027.

All 54 councillors, by ward
  • Jamie Fearn (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Jennifer Wells (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Lisa Boyle (Reform UK) — Bablake
  • Jennifer Odje (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Marcus Fogden (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Paul Cowley (Reform UK) — Binley & Willenhall
  • Barbara Mosterman (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheylesmore
  • Richard Brown (Labour Party) — Cheylesmore
  • Roger Bailey (Conservative and Unionist) — Cheylesmore
  • Antony Tucker (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Kindy Sandhu (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Lynnette Kelly (Labour Party) — Earlsdon
  • Abdul Khan (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Habib Rehman (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Shakila Nazir (Labour Party) — Foleshill
  • Alistair Cole (Reform UK) — Henley
  • Ed Ruane (Labour Party) — Henley
  • Mel Gregory (Reform UK) — Henley
  • Esther Reeves (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Stephen Gray (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Tom Jewell (Green Party (E&W)) — Holbrooks
  • Amor Albert (Reform UK) — Longford
  • George Duggins (Labour Party) — Longford
  • Linda Bigham (Labour Party) — Longford
  • John McNicholas (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Rupinder Singh (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Shahnaz Akhter (Labour Party) — Lower Stoke
  • Angela Hopkins (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Mal Mutton (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Patricia Hetherton (Labour Party) — Radford
  • Charles Phillips (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Daniel Stainton (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Jackie Gardiner (Reform UK) — Sherbourne
  • Matt Greenhalgh (Green Party (E&W)) — St Michael's
  • Naeem Akhtar (Labour Party) — St Michael's
  • Sanjida Jobbar (Labour Party) — St Michael's
  • Marcus Lapsa (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • Steven Keough (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • William Davies (Reform UK) — Tile Hill & Canley
  • Amirjit Kaur (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • Gurdev Hayre (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • Kamran Caan (Labour Party) — Upper Stoke
  • John Blundell (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Mattie Heaven (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Pratibha Reddy (Conservative and Unionist) — Wainbody
  • Jayne Innes (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Julie Jones (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Pervez Akhtar (Labour Party) — Whoberley
  • Adrian Bryant (Reform UK) — Woodlands
  • Dunc Clark (Reform UK) — Woodlands
  • Julia Lepoidevin (Conservative and Unionist) — Woodlands
  • Andrew Bullock (Reform UK) — Wyken
  • Dawn McCann (Reform UK) — Wyken
  • Frank Beechey (Reform UK) — Wyken

Each councillor’s register of interests is on the council’s own website; we have not yet located the page. Councillors from Open Council Data as recorded after the May 2026 elections; a by-election since then may have changed one seat. Attendance and allowances are not shown.

This council’s meeting papers are not yet read automatically, so decisions and motions are not listed here; they are on the council’s website.

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